Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action is character.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin